The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America

The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
ISBN-10
0674976010
ISBN-13
9780674976016
Category
History
Pages
360
Language
English
Published
2018-02-26
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Beth Lew-Williams

Description

Beth Lew-Williams shows how American immigration policies incited violence against Chinese workers, and how that violence provoked new exclusionary policies. Locating the origins of the modern American "alien" in this violent era, she makes clear that the present resurgence of xenophobia builds mightily upon past fears of the "heathen Chinaman."

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